Even if we mapped every genome, mathematics would still confront us with unending questions Dr Reyaz Ahmad “Mathematics is the only infinite human activity,” the legendary problem-poser Paul Erdős ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, ...

Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...

Early retirement sounds romantic until you sit down with a calculator. The idea of Financial Independence, or FI, is simple: You build a corpus large enough that your investments generate enough ...

The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the ...

Kevin Kelly, founding editor of "Wired" magazine and a lifelong observer of technology in motion, returns to Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner's "Rule Breaker Investing" for a conversation about ...

Math struggles in kids may stem from brains that have a harder time learning from mistakes—not just understanding numbers.

Decades of cognitive research reveal that parrots can understand what numbers represent. Here’s how these birds use them to describe the world around them.

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...